1776-83 American Revolution

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The American Revolution
1776-1783
  • British policy makers asked colonists to pay revenues from French and Indian War
  • Stamp Act (taxes)
  • Votes marked differently for colonists compared to British
  • virtual representation v. actual representation
  • king parliament should not interfere within the colonies
  • no taxation without representation
  • Tea Act of 1773-Boston tea party
  • first continental congress
  • Enlightenment
  • Common Sense
  • Lexington and concord
  • defeat of British at Saratoga
  • Spain, dutch Republic, France enter war
  • Cornwallis surrenders 1781
  • Declaration of Independence
  • treaty of Paris
  • revolutions spread through text
  • unstable govn't in America
  • weak articles of confederation
  • (eventually) French Revolution
  • Europe was shocked
  • liberal ideas could be put into action
  • model for the rest of Europe